Behind the Scenes

TimeLine’s Living History Teaching Artists have an icebreaker that they love to play with new groups of people. They call the game, “Where my people from” and provide a series of prompts that a single person can say to the group:  Where my people from, we… I love my people who… Where I’m from, we… On my block, we…  Then they usually follow up with an example like, “Where my people from, Sunday night is ...

In honor of this year’s presidential election, we reached out to TimeLine company, associate artists, board, and staff to ask about their views on voting. We asked them three questions: What was your first memory involving voting? What can you remember about the first time you voted? What does voting mean to you?  Across generations and over many elections, experiences differed but the bottom line remained the same: we believe that voting is a piece ...